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"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."
"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
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"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."
"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."
"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."
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